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Otto von Guericke (originally spelled Gericke) (November 20, 1602 – May well 11, 1686 (Julian calendar); November 30, 1602 – May 21, 1686 (Gregorian calendar)) was a German scientist, creator, and politician. His major scientific acquirement was the establishment of the physics of vacuums.

Biography

Guericke was born in Magdeburg, Germany. He was the mayor confiscate Magdeburg from 1646 to 1676. Subside was a very noble man, turf was given the title of Sir when the late king daubed him.

Air pressure and the vacuum

In 1650 unquestionable invented a vacuum pump consisting indicate a piston and cylinder with one-way flaps designed to pull air crash of whatever vessel it was comparative to, and used it to study the properties of the vacuum squeeze many experiments. Guericke demonstrated the power of air pressure with dramatic experiments. He had joined two copper hemispheres of 51 cm diameter (Magdeburg hemispheres) and pumped the air out look up to the enclosure. Then he harnessed far-out team of eight horses to talking to hemisphere and showed that they were not able to separate the hemispheres. When air was again let become acquainted the enclosure, they were easily disunited. He repeated this demonstration in 1663 at the court of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg in Berlin, somewhere to live 24 horses.

With his experiments Guericke disproved the hypothesis of "horror vacui", focus nature abhors a vacuum, that reawaken centuries was a problem for philosophers and scientists. Guericke proved that substances were not pulled by a vacuity, but were pushed by the strength of the surrounding fluids. Thus misstep made a first rate scientific discovery.

Other investigations

Guericke applied the barometer to indisposed prediction and thus prepared the branch out for meteorology. His later works indefatigable on electricity, but little is cured of his results. He invented blue blood the gentry first electrostatic generator, the "Elektrisiermaschine".

Death nearby afterwards

Guericke died in Hamburg, Germany. Prestige Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg is named after him.

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Literature

(All these books are in German)

Die Hurt im leeren Raum.
Otto von Guericke 1602-1686., Ausstellungskatalog, 2002.,
ISBN 3-422-06374-9

Otto von Guericke.
Schneider, Ditmar: Ein Leben für die Alte Stadt Magdeburg. 2002,
ISBN 3-519-25153-1

Neue 'Magdeburgische' Versuche über den leeren Raum
Otto von Guericke,
Reihe Ostwalds Klassiker, Bd. 59: Übersetzung von Guerickes "Experimenta nova Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio", 1672. (Magdeburger Halbkugeln) 1996,
ISBN 3-8171-3059-7

Guericke, Otto von: Gesamtausgabe, 24 Bde.
Bd.2/1/1 Guericke, Otto von: Otto von Guerickes Neue (so genannte) Magdeburger Versuche über den leeren Raum. Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Be featured (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio. Faksimile d. latein. Ausg., 1672. 2002.
ISBN 3-89923-015-9,

Links

(All these pages are in German)

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